Example sentences of "were not [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On appeal against conviction , on the ground that the services provided by the appellant were not services within an ‘ office or employment , ’ in respect of which the opportunity to earn remuneration had been obtained , within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Act : — |
| 2 | Many of these sites were not villages at all , but hamlets . |
| 3 | The judges in that case recognised that decisions of the stewards might affect the public but concluded they were not decisions in the sphere of public law . |
| 4 | Some of those who have , like the east European Mennonites , were not Germans by origin at all ( unless all speakers of Germanic languages are counted ) , but Flemings or Frisians . |
| 5 | To the waiters standing about it seemed to be perfectly stationary , but they were not members of the Chop Society and it was not their table . |
| 6 | Even members of the Commission who , like myself , were not members of the Labour party , hoped that their social exclusiveness could be softened , and that they would follow the lines of development then visible in Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 7 | Such a move would probably be ruled out even if we were not members of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 8 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 9 | Although there were notable exceptions , the most eminent philosophers of nature were not members of the clergy but were lay figures who developed their own theologies . |
| 10 | L 379 , p. 1 ) , according to which the levying of any customs duty or charge having equivalent effect and the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having equivalent effect were prohibited in the internal trade of the Community ; ( c ) article 8(1) of that Regulation , which , as regards the payment of an indemnity to producers who were not members of a producers ' organisation , provided that such an indemnity was to be granted without discrimination as to the nationality or place of establishment of the recipients ; ( d ) article 27(2) of that Regulation , which laid down for all fishing vessels flying the flag of one of the member states the principle of equal access to ports and first-stage marketing installations in the other member states ; ( e ) article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , which authorised the member states to determine the detailed rules for the utilisation of the quotas allocated to them , in accordance with the applicable Community provisions ; and ( f ) article 13(2) of Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3094/86 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources ( Official Journal 1986 No . |
| 11 | An instruction was issued by the Seamen 's Union that members were not to engage on ships whose captain and officers were not members of the Certificated Officers ' Union and any doubts among the majority of shipowners that a national organisation of employers was necessary to protect their interests disappeared . |
| 12 | Of the 78 members of the Constitutional Convention , 24 are new in the sense that they were not members of the Assembly , and of those 24 , 20 belong to the UUUC coalition . |
| 13 | Under the prevailing laws only some 20,000 traditional chiefs ( Matai ) were allowed to vote in elections to 45 seats in the Fono , while voters of European blood who were not members of a Matai family elected the remaining two seats . |
| 14 | Hitherto , since independence from New Zealand in 1962 , 45 legislators had been elected by the 20,000 Matai — the traditional male heads of extended family groups — and the remaining two by voters of European blood who were not members of any Matai family . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Wörner , in a clear reference on May 29 to Norway , Turkey and Iceland , which were not members of the European Community ( EC ) , warned that it would be " unacceptable " if new European defence arrangements excluded any European member of the NATO alliance . |
| 16 | CSCE members who were not members of NATO or the defunct Warsaw Pact would invited to accede to the treaty before it took effect in 1993 . |
| 17 | They were contributors to a family wage rather than independent earners , but they were not members of a family unit of production . |
| 18 | Of the minority of the working classes who were Methodists by 1815 even after the growth surge which began in the 1790s , most were not members of the forming industrial proletariat . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , the nine members of the steering group for this study were not members of the Conservative Party Central Office or the Adam Smith Institute but , with one exception ( the representative of the Housebuilders ' Federation ) , were governmental officials , mostly from the Department of the Environment . |
| 20 | In fact , they were not joints of meat at all , but pagan gods and goddesses , grotesquely and beautifully carved from roughly-cut haunches of woodland trees . |
| 21 | The words in square brackets have now been repealed by the Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 , removing the anomaly which prevented local authorities from taking legal action under this section , in respect of odours affecting employees and others who were not inhabitants of the neighbourhood , despite being of the opinion that the odour was sufficiently obnoxious to amount to a nuisance . |
| 22 | In the Old Testament economy the poor tithe , the gleaning laws , the prohibition on usury were not options for the Jews . |
| 23 | The new electronic media of the 1980s , such as cable , satellite TV and video recorders , were not variations in the product reaching the audience , as were those changes in the press . |
| 24 | So they were not conservatives at all . |
| 25 | But Virgin were not victors at every auction . |
| 26 | We are still punishing the Vietnamese long after it is clear they were not victors in any real sense . |
| 27 | They were not puppets like the garden-master . |
| 28 | The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body . |
| 29 | Derek Gladwyn , chairman of the conference arrangement committee , said : ‘ The people photographed were not delegates at all . ’ |
| 30 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |